Every Saturday morning a bunch of us old guys get together to do a Bible study thing with coffee and doughnuts...6:00A.M. sharp.
I started to grab a parking place and decided to on one a little closer so I shifted into reverse. the car sputters and dies. After 20 seconds of cranking it sputters to life and I give it a good romp to expell the loaded up gas. I park it and shut off the lights......pass side goes down, drivers side stays up??? I get out and go into the building for about one hour and 20 minutes. Bible study over and I get in the Vette and start it up....The driver side headlight goes down??. I turn on the lights and both doors come up...shut off the lights and both doors go down...as they should. No more problems for the rest of the weekend.
I noticed the car is erratic on idle. Normal idle is 750rpm in gear...1000rpm in park or neutral. Now is seems to be 750 in gear...14-1500 in park or neutral. I notice since warmer weather has arrived it likes to stay on fast idle and I have to give it a romp to kick it down to normal.
The Vette is a 78 350 L-82 Qjet with Auto trans. It does have a thumper cam but I have no other info on the engine. The carb has been gone through??? This is a 53000 mile Vette and has been taken care of. It's a nice car that has escaped abuse. Everything on the car has always worked great except this sudden load -up of fuel. I've owned it about three years.
The car did load up with gas a couple of times before the carb rebuild and I hadn't had any problem with it until now. It did the same thing as before rebuild. What about that odd vacumn display on the headlight doors?
Any ideas or comments?
Thanks....Alex
I started to grab a parking place and decided to on one a little closer so I shifted into reverse. the car sputters and dies. After 20 seconds of cranking it sputters to life and I give it a good romp to expell the loaded up gas. I park it and shut off the lights......pass side goes down, drivers side stays up??? I get out and go into the building for about one hour and 20 minutes. Bible study over and I get in the Vette and start it up....The driver side headlight goes down??. I turn on the lights and both doors come up...shut off the lights and both doors go down...as they should. No more problems for the rest of the weekend.
I noticed the car is erratic on idle. Normal idle is 750rpm in gear...1000rpm in park or neutral. Now is seems to be 750 in gear...14-1500 in park or neutral. I notice since warmer weather has arrived it likes to stay on fast idle and I have to give it a romp to kick it down to normal.
The Vette is a 78 350 L-82 Qjet with Auto trans. It does have a thumper cam but I have no other info on the engine. The carb has been gone through??? This is a 53000 mile Vette and has been taken care of. It's a nice car that has escaped abuse. Everything on the car has always worked great except this sudden load -up of fuel. I've owned it about three years.
The car did load up with gas a couple of times before the carb rebuild and I hadn't had any problem with it until now. It did the same thing as before rebuild. What about that odd vacumn display on the headlight doors?
Any ideas or comments?
Thanks....Alex
